The Nostalgic Imagination

The Nostalgic Imagination
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 0198860331
ISBN-13 : 9780198860334
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Book Synopsis The Nostalgic Imagination by : Stefan Collini

Download or read book The Nostalgic Imagination written by Stefan Collini and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book born from his Oxford Ford Lectures, Stefan Collini challenges the historical assumptions at work in twentieth-century English literary criticism, showing how the work of critics was bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historical change, the interpretation of the national past, and the work of earlier scholars.


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